More Mental Meanderings
Saturday, February 24th, 20072/21/07
As I fly out of the San Jose airport, headed for the States again for another visit to Mom, I find myself in those rare and exciting moments sitting in my row on my flight as the passengers are getting on board. Its a full flight, or nearly so, and I’m sitting in a row, window seat, with no one sitting next to me. I’ve got the whole row to myself! People are still loading, and so I’m just not sure if maybe, just maybe, I am going to get the whole row to myself. But then… they come along and there goes that.
I think sometimes about the dread travel experience that is so characterized in movies and how it is when the guy (or gal) that gets assigned the seat next to you turns out to be a horrible bore, or they just want to talk talk the whole way and all you wanted to do was get some uncommitted quiet time on the plane. I think that I have narrowly missed a couple such encounters but was saved by a movie or iPod or some other thing that I could use as a distraction. Sometimes I get to thinking though that maybe I’m one of those people. It can happen on occasion that do I get to talking a bit. I know, for those of you that know me that is hard to believe. But, it’s true, it can happen.
Usually the conversations that I have in this particular setting have to do with making “the move”. “What did you have in mind when you moved to Costa Rica?” Was there something about the States that you didn’t like?” (more…)
